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Dream Yoga - A Self-Directed Pilgrimage to Oneness with GodDream yoga is a way to use your dreams to speed your realization of your oneness with God - a life of inner peace, wisdom, and deep love for yourself and others. Meditation is the traditional path to oneness with God. But spiritual masters still die of heart attacks, cancer, and various diseases. Why? Gurus with great spiritual awareness still get caught philandering. Why? It's because meditation moves us into the experience of oneness without necessarily addressing the karmic baggage that we all carry from our childhood or before. Genetic predispositions toward high blood pressure or bipolar disorder remain. Poor communication skills, if they exist, don't magically disappear. Prosperity or success in the world don't necessarily follow, just because we achieve awareness of our oneness with God. Perhaps these things will no longer matter when we reach enlightenment, but perhaps they will. Prosperity, success in the world, success in our personal lives, represent competencies, capabilities, potentials to help others. As long as the less fortunate remain, we will want to increase our ability to be of service. To give up their value dismisses the power of Spirit to flourish in all aspects of our lives.
Why don't master meditators automatically achieve health, wealth, and charismatic personalities? Meditation is not meant to address these sorts of issues. That is not its purpose. It is primarily for enhancing inner peace by first cultivating the Witness and then transcending it. We often don't see how we are sabotaging our present and future ability to achieve health, wealth, and satisfying personal relationships. Without awareness, we can't address our deficits. When we become aware of them it is often too late to slow their intertia. For instance, a smoker may be aware of the health risks of smoking, but the awareness is not strong or clear enough to overcome the desire to smoke. Maybe it takes lung cancer to make them sufficiently aware of the risks. By that time it is often too late.
We are unable to change what we are unaware of. Every night your dream groups serve as an early warning system, showing you how you are your own worst enemy as well as how you can be your own best friend. Are you listening?
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